Subscribe to Dirt just now. Used to get Singletrack too, but got bored with it. Very occasionally buy What MTB or MBUK if I'm travelling. Tbf, the last MBUK I bought was a vast improvement over the previous one a year or so before. On the other hand, I hadn't bought MBR in years, but the one I picked up the other week was really awful.

Dirt for me... I get them all though, Singletrack is usually the best of the rest. MBR went through a patch of quality but is back to being crap, WMB and MBUK have their moments. Usually enough of interest to me that I don't feel ripped off tbh.

I was in Smiths and having flicked through the mtb mags I bought Classic Bike instead.
Nice to have something that lasts longer than a trip to the toilet. I do subscribe to Singletrack. Mainly as a thank you for this web site.

None of them. Might pick up whatever looks most interesting in Smiths if I'm desperate/going on a journey etc but they don't tend to contain anything that I can't read for free on the internet and a few just seem to contain mindless drivel for the sake of filling pages...

Singletrack digital subscription is an amazing deal. For £2 a month you get access to all back issues. Privateer also looks good but I've never bought it due to the astronomical price - sure the production quality is better than most magazines, but even the digital subscription option is more expensive than most paper mags. Only other magazine I buy regularly is Dirt. MBR has gone the way of MBUK and I can't be bothered with it any more.

i used to read MBUK, MBR, Singletrack and What Mountain Bike. i stopped getting WMB when the newsagent stopped getting it in but i was still content on the other 3. occasionally i would buy Dirt as well. problem was that i would collect the magazines and there eventually came a cut off point when i had no room in the house and the wife refused to tolerate the amount of money i was spending on them and the space they were taking up....i had every issue of singletrack and MBR. my MBUK collection went back as far as 1997!!
i ended up getting rid of them all 18 months ago before we moved to the new house which didnt have the space for them...
i stopped buying magazines for a while but have recently started again but i'm limiting myself to 1 magazine a month...so it depends on which one contains the most interesting articles...

Used to really like dirt's stream-of-consciousness editorial style esp when they had the reader's letters and fantastic one-off prototype DH rigs but since about Oct last year I think it's become far too dull. Basically mbr with a few DH pictures to give it some reflected glory.

to be honest i find them all crap, i might read the odd article in Smiths but that is about it.

To much repetition over the years, the focus has shifted to a type of riding i have no interest in, reviews are out of date and of questionable value, relate to the tester but not to another person. etc.etc.

I've had to force myself to chuck piles of old mags , loft had to be cleared for upgraded insulation . Had to be brutal and now realise how much I've wasted over the years . TBF they have been entertaining and informative on the whole and have helped me save money. ,!,! Must get disciplined in the future and cut right down . Singletrack still on sub from day one for some strange reason I can't bin those ? Also got Mountain Bike World and Maximum Mountain Bike both complete that I'm trying to hang on too !

Bike has always had the best writing & photography, IMO. Dirt Rag has had some great art work (and beer reviews!) over the years, too.

(*my absolute favourite mags are old issues of Bike circa 1996/97/98 - the Singletrack Special, The Dark Issue, The Joy of Dirt, etc - I regard 'em in pretty much the same way I regard my favourite books, and they get read again and again...).